Nominated for four Academy Awards and a Golden Globe in 1985, The Natural stars Robert Redford as ballplayer Roy Hobbs, a Midwestern farm boy who grew up with a brilliant natural talent for baseball, but whose career was cut short by a murderous stalker (Barbara Hershey) who nearly killed him. Years later, almost too old to play, Hobbs joins a struggling National League team and, buoyed by his respect for the team manager (Wilford Brimley) and by his childhood sweetheart (Glenn Close), takes the team to the World Series. Set to a heroic soundtrack by Randy Newman that reminded reviewers of Aaron Copland, Barry Levinson's adaptation of Bernard Malamud's 1952 novel of the same name celebrates the myth at the heart of America's ongoing love affair with baseball.